The Week: The Terror Campaign Against ICE

• That escalated slowly.

• A man who sought to instill “real terror” in Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents orchestrated a targeted attack on an ICE facility in Dallas on Wednesday. Suspect Joshua Jahn, 29, sat atop a building adjacent to the facility and shot at an unmarked van that was transporting ICE detainees. Jahn, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot, killed one detainee and injured two others. But it was clear he meant to assassinate federal immigration agents. Authorities found shell casings with anti-ICE messages next to Jahn’s body. The FBI also determined after a search of Jahn’s devices and personal writings that the shooter searched for apps that track ICE activity and hoped federal agents would be left looking over their shoulders. This week’s attack is the latest in a string of anti-ICE incidents in Texas—including a planned ambush on an Alvarado ICE facility in July, a targeted shoot-out at a McAllen Border Patrol annex in July, and a bomb threat at a Dallas facility in August. ICE agents are doing jobs that are lawfully given to them by our elected government. The rules and regulations guiding their activity provide for humane treatment of their detainees. Proceedings in our courts are generous to a fault. The terror campaign against ICE is a threat to the American system.

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• That escalated slowly.

• A man who sought to instill “real terror” in Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents orchestrated a targeted attack on an ICE facility in Dallas on Wednesday. Suspect Joshua Jahn, 29, sat atop a building adjacent to the facility and shot at an unmarked van that was transporting ICE detainees. Jahn, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot, killed one detainee and injured two others. But it was clear he meant to assassinate federal immigration agents. Authorities found shell casings with anti-ICE messages next to Jahn’s body. The FBI also determined after a search of Jahn’s devices and personal writings that the shooter searched for apps that track ICE activity and hoped federal agents would be left looking over their shoulders. This week’s attack is the latest in a string of anti-ICE incidents in Texas—including a planned ambush on an Alvarado ICE facility in July, a targeted shoot-out at a McAllen Border Patrol annex in July, and a bomb threat at a Dallas facility in August. ICE agents are doing jobs that are lawfully given to them by our elected government. The rules and regulations guiding their activity provide for humane treatment of their detainees. Proceedings in our courts are generous to a fault. The terror campaign against ICE is a threat to the American system.